A 360 Degree View of Audience Engagement — As promised, site statistics are now live. Our architecture conversion work after the BlogBeat acquisition is complete, and our free StandardStats service now enables any of our publishers to track both feed and site audience, all from the comfort of your FeedBurner account.

Performancing Deal is Off — After much discussion and heartache we have decided to walk away from the Performancing deal. We listened to our Posties and other Metrics users, dug into the Metrics platform and regretfully found that it wasn't what we were looking for right now.

Daylife Launches, Starts Very Long Uphill Climb — New York based Daylife, a news aggregation site I invested in long, long ago, has finally launched. We first mentioned the company back in July. After quickly reviewing the launch product, I am unhappy to report that I am underwhelmed by what Daylife has to offer.

MACWORLD 2007: NEW GOODIES FOR THE WEB WORKER? — It's that time of year...Macworld Expo in San Francisco begins next week. While the east coast version of the conference has died on the vine, the San Francisco show is still a huge draw. What tricks do you think Steve Jobs …

Microsoft's Achievement Points Yield 'Nerd Cred' — The concept of Achievement Points and a Gamerscore has become more popular than Microsoft ever imagined. Group Product Manager Aaron Greenberg and Epic Games lead designer CliffyB chime in on why gamers are seemingly obsessed with these points.

Microvision Unveils Tiny Digital Projector — Microvision today announced that it will unveil at CES an ultra-miniature full-color digital projection display approximately the size of a Thin Mint candy, designed to be embedded into handheld electronic devices such as cellphones, PDAs, or multimedia handhelds.

DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB — An interesting tidbit from Guy Kawasaki's wrap-up of his first full year blogging. The key part is bolded. Note that his blog has been consistently between the 35th and 45th most popular in the world, according to Technorati. Here are some of his stats:

Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn — The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven. — The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need.

Why The Newswire Model Won't Work For Blogs — from the blast-from-the-past dept — From time to time you hear stories of individual blogs getting sued for copyright infringement. Often it has to do with snagging copyrighted pictures, whereas sometimes sites get into trouble for lifting whole articles.

Exclusive: Columbine Game Kicked From Competition — Slamdance finalist Super Columbine Massacre RPG has been officially kicked from the festival due to mounting pressure from protesters and the loss of sponsorship, the game's creator told Kotaku Thursday night.

Ready to produce IMs in court? — Companies are now on the hook to retain a broader range of digital data than before — Companies that do not keep close tabs on PDAs, instant message conversations and other forms of electronic data may soon be in for a nasty surprise, should they find themselves in court.

Microsoft Word Grows Up — Q&A: As Microsoft Corporate Vice President Peter Pathe prepares to retire, he discusses the lasting legacy of a product he's overseen for more than a decade. — With the release of Microsoft's new generation of technologies in 2007 comes an interesting highlight about a venerable program.

The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr — Ever wonder why Microsoft hasn't released an HDMI cable for the Xbox 360, or whether the AV port was really capable of digital out? Well, here's your answer: we landed pictures of what appears to be the second Xbox 360 — the Xbox 360 v2, if you will — codenamed Zephyr.